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    Akhaltsikhe (Rabati) Castle (Georgian: ახალციხის (რაბათის) ციხე) is a medieval fortress built in the 9th century under the name "Lomsia Castle" in the...
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    old city in the north and new in the south. The 9th-century Akhaltsikhe (Rabati) Castle, which was recently restored, is located in the old part of the...
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    named the city Akhaltsikhe, because in Georgian, "Akhaltsikhe" means "new fortress" or "new castle." The capital and main city of Akhaltsikhe, Samtskhe-Saatabago...
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    147.400 (2023) and an area of 6,413 km2 (2,476 sq mi). The region has Akhaltsikhe as its administrative center. Samtskhe–Javakheti is made up of the historical...
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    originated from Azerbaijan. Her mother, Kadriye Salihoğlu, originated from Akhaltsikhe (türk. Ahıska) in southwest Georgia. The families had emigrated to Trabzon...
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    The city of Akhaltsikhe is its administrative centre. Akhaltsikhe municipality is administratively divided into two cities (Akhaltsikhe and Vale) and...
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    earliest castle in Georgia was the Ananuri castle, which was built in the period from 1200–1249. The Ananuri castle consisted of two castles with a big...
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    64 computer processor core revision Akhaltsikhe ("New Castle"), Georgia Castelnau (disambiguation) ("New Castle"), places in Occitan-speaking areas Castelnuovo...
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    day, Paskevich attacked and captured Atskhur castle which guarded the Borjomi Gorge leading from Akhaltsikhe northeast to Georgia. On 22 August the Russians...
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    mnishvnelobis gza S8, road of international importance), also known as Khashuri–Akhaltsikhe-Vale (border of the Republic of Turkey), is a "road of international...
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    Russian-controlled Georgia to the Turkish Pashalik of Akhaltsikhe. It was guarded by a fort or castle called Atskhur. About Sights – Borjomi Aerial Tramway...
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    valleys of Jaqi, Postkhovi (modern Posof, Turkey), and Uraveli (near Akhaltsikhe, Georgia). The title "Jaqeli" first appears in the names of Beshken (I)...
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    tenth-century Garbanikerk, the Sioni basilica, the Akhaltsikhe basilica and the seventeenth-century Sno Castle. In the area one finds a mix of Christian and...
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    Solomon II was not firm. Defeated David II, who temporarily took refuge in Akhaltsikhe, continued to fight for the throne. In 1790, with the help of Ottoman...
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    uncles Mamuka and George, mother Tamar, who forced Solomon to flee to Akhaltsikhe for Ottoman protection. Solomon restored his rule with the help of the...
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    Jaqeli, then ruling as Ottoman frontier governors of Çıldır, based in Akhaltsikhe (Ahıska). The immediate cause of the Ottoman intervention in western...
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    the frontline of these attacks. Timur set out from Kars and assailed Akhaltsikhe. From there, he marched against Tbilisi which the Georgian king Bagrat...
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    serasker of Erzurum, approached, Selim fled Akhaltsikhe to the mountains of Adjara and entrenched himself in the castle of Khikhani, which fell after a two-month-long...
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    Muslim-inhabited regions (including the cities of Batum, Ardahan, Artvin, Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki) to the Ottoman government (Treaty of Batum, June 4)...
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  • Battle of Oltenitza 4 Nov Russians defeated by Ottoman troops Battle of Akhaltsikhe 24 Nov Battle of Başgedikler 1 Dec 1854 Battle of Cetate 6 Jan Ottoman...
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    Slesa (category Castles and forts in Georgia (country))
    located in the Akhaltsikhe Municipality in the Samtskhe–Javakheti region. The fortress—its history involved in obscurity—consists of a castle, now in a ruinous...
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    several architectural styles for castles, towers, fortifications and churches. The Upper Svaneti fortifications, and the castle town of Shatili in Khevsureti...
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    bold): Ardanuç Arhavi Artvin Borçka Hopa Kemalpaşa Murgul Şavşat Yusufeli Akhaltsikhe, Georgia Casablanca, Morocco Batumi, Georgia Arifana Kochari Tayk Tao-Klarjeti...
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    father's birthplace, Akhaltsikhe, in Georgia in a special concert as part of the opening ceremony of the recently restored Rabati castle. On 25 October 2013...
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    river valley of Otskhe, 25 km northeast of Adigeni and 28 km west of Akhaltsikhe. As of the 2014 census, it had a population of 937. The Georgian National...
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    sultan planned a ‘final blow’ against Simon and Manuchar: one army took Akhaltsikhe, the other headed for Tbilisi and Gori, forcing Simon into Samtskhe....
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    1961 Lowest recorded temperature:−16.1 °C (3.0 °F) on 14 January 1950 Akhaltsikhe, Georgia Oslo, Norway Batumi, Georgia Frankfurt, Germany Casablanca,...
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    Russia's annexation of Yerevan and Nakhchivan 1829: Russia's annexation of Akhaltsikhe 1839: Tanzimat Edict in the Ottoman Empire 1876: The first constitution...
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    (b. 1180) Renaud I (or Reginald), French nobleman (b. 1165) Shalva of Akhaltsikhe, Georgian general and courtier Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The...
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    Turkey) and reaches Malatya, then Chaldea, Erzurum, Oltu and Akhaltsikhe. From Akhaltsikhe he goes to Kartli, where he realizes the tense situation. Timote...
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